[#173424] Ruby 1.8.4 and tcltk under Linux — Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...>

I have some Ruby code that uses Tk that works fine under Windows.

10 messages 2006/01/01

[#173454] macworld — Mike Schwab <michael.schwab@...>

What Ruby stuff will be happening at Macworld? What software is

32 messages 2006/01/01
[#173606] Re: macworld — "Hampton" <hcatlin@...> 2006/01/02

I just bought a new Mac, and its the worst dev environment for ruby

[#173607] Re: macworld — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/01/02

On Jan 2, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Hampton wrote:

[#173646] Re: macworld — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2006/01/02

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:52:59AM +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#173648] Re: macworld — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/01/02

On Jan 2, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:

[#173665] Re: macworld — Chad Perrin <perrin@...> 2006/01/02

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:03:49AM +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#173520] Can't change the value of self — Jonathan Leighton <lists@...>

This code:

14 messages 2006/01/02

[#173544] New to Ruby and Programming — Will Shattuck <willshattuck@...>

Hi folks. Happy New Year!

36 messages 2006/01/02
[#173551] Re: New to Ruby and Programming — "J. Ryan Sobol" <ryansobol@...> 2006/01/02

Can you list and describe the programs you've developed in the past?

[#173555] Re: New to Ruby and Programming — Will Shattuck <willshattuck@...> 2006/01/02

On 1/1/06, J. Ryan Sobol <ryansobol@gmail.com> wrote:

[#173556] Re: New to Ruby and Programming — "J. Ryan Sobol" <ryansobol@...> 2006/01/02

Sounds like your at the cusp of a new and exciting thing, so I want

[#173557] Re: New to Ruby and Programming — Will Shattuck <willshattuck@...> 2006/01/02

On 1/1/06, J. Ryan Sobol <ryansobol@gmail.com> wrote:

[#173628] application and web app technologies — cartercc@...

January, 2006.

32 messages 2006/01/02

[#173657] Implicit block parameter? — "Ross Bamford" <rosco@...>

Hi,

33 messages 2006/01/02

[#173738] Rubyhelp wanted /offered — PG <PG@...>

hi guys - I read some of the posts here & wanted to point out that

16 messages 2006/01/03

[#173777] Ruby projects and interfaces to revision control systems (Darcs vs. Cogito) — Alan Garrison <alang@...>

Our company, which is beginning to use Ruby in production systems, has

37 messages 2006/01/03
[#173783] Re: Ruby projects and interfaces to revision control systems (Darcs vs. Cogito) — "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...> 2006/01/03

I just took a brief look at the Darcs web site and the Cogito web site.

[#173789] Re: Ruby projects and interfaces to revision control systems (Darcs vs. Cogito) — Alan Garrison <alang@...> 2006/01/03

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

[#173797] Re: Ruby projects and interfaces to revision control systems — Ollivier Robert <keltia@...> 2006/01/03

Alan Garrison wrote:

[#173807] Re: Ruby projects and interfaces to revision control systems (Darcs vs. Cogito) — mental@... 2006/01/03

It's lunch time, so here are my own (very opinionated) thoughts on

[#173852] Re: Ruby projects and interfaces to revision control systems (Darcs vs. Cogito) — mathew <meta@...> 2006/01/03

mental@rydia.net wrote:

[#174304] Re: Ruby projects and interfaces to revision control systems (Darcs vs. Cogito) — Jeffrey Dik <jeffrey.dik@...> 2006/01/05

2005 seems to have been a really good year for open-source SCMs. Many

[#173791] - Requesting Comments for Process Definition and Presentation — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>

comp.lang.python / comp.lang.ruby

23 messages 2006/01/03
[#173798] Re: [OT] - Requesting Comments for Process Definition and Presentation — Claudio Grondi <claudio.grondi@...> 2006/01/03

Ilias Lazaridis wrote:

[#173823] Re: [OT] - Requesting Comments for Process Definition and Presentation — Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...> 2006/01/03

Claudio Grondi wrote:

[#174489] Re: [OT] - Requesting Comments for Process Definition and Presentation — Xavier Morel <xavier.morel@...> 2006/01/06

Ilias Lazaridis wrote:

[#173897] silly regex question — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>

Can someone help me make this code not suck?

15 messages 2006/01/03
[#173901] Re: silly regex question — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/01/03

On Jan 3, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

[#173902] Re: silly regex question — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...> 2006/01/03

On 1/3/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

[#173905] Re: silly regex question — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/01/03

On Jan 3, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote:

[#173898] Proposed new rule — "Warren Brown" <warrenbrown@...>

> The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

40 messages 2006/01/03
[#173912] Re: [QUIZ] Proposed new rule — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/01/03

On Jan 3, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Warren Brown wrote:

[#173923] Email Address Regex [was Re: silly regex question] — Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@...>

On 1/3/06, Dan Kohn <dan@dankohn.com> wrote:

30 messages 2006/01/03
[#174026] Re: Email Address Regex — "Andreas S." <f@...> 2006/01/04

Jacob Fugal wrote:

[#173989] Is there a way to clear the contents of a terminal? — John Maclean <info@...>

Hi Chaps,

15 messages 2006/01/04

[#174109] Question on iterating a hash — phil swenson <phil.swenson@...>

I have a hash that looks like this : {"1"=>"0, "3"="1", "45"=>"1",

17 messages 2006/01/04

[#174202] using irb — John Maclean <info@...>

So far I've created a ~/bin/rb/dev/foo directory as a place to write and test scripts. After reading the "pick axe" book some more it seems as is irb is a better "place" or "way" to try out stuff. This correct?

14 messages 2006/01/05

[#174257] Demystifying Symbols. — Dave Howell <groups@...>

I was actually doing really well until the strange discussion involving

24 messages 2006/01/05

[#174312] how remove puts inside method? — Carlos Delmar <k@...>

I have a method (process_transaction) that uses puts to output a result.

14 messages 2006/01/05

[#174357] Is it possible to create a GUI/TUI toolkit using ruby? — "simonh" <simonharrison@...>

this may be a daft question, but is it possible to create a widget

9 messages 2006/01/05

[#174374] How do you sort a text file? — Danny Abc <dannyabc@...>

I'm new to Ruby and was wondering how to sort a text file?

15 messages 2006/01/05

[#174521] Dice Roller (#61) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

111 messages 2006/01/06
[#174560] Re: [QUIZ] Dice Roller (#61) — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2006/01/06

On Jan 6, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Ruby Quiz wrote:

[#174568] Re: [QUIZ] Dice Roller (#61) — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2006/01/06

On 06/01/06, Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote:

[#174585] Re: [QUIZ] Dice Roller (#61) — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2006/01/06

[#174587] Re: [QUIZ] Dice Roller (#61) — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/01/06

On Jan 6, 2006, at 5:35 PM, Jim Freeze wrote:

[#174531] Re: [QUIZ] Dice Roller (#61) — "J. Ryan Sobol" <ryansobol@...> 2006/01/06

Please don't take this the wrong way, but I've never played D&D.

[#174593] Splitting strings on spaces, unless inside quotes — Richard Livsey <richard@...>

I want to split a string into words, but group quoted words together

17 messages 2006/01/07

[#174641] Iterator Fu Failing Me — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

I have a group of classes, all implementing a parse?() class method.

38 messages 2006/01/07

[#174669] RMagick exporting pixels as string — Ilmari Heikkinen <ilmari.heikkinen@...>

Hi,

4 messages 2006/01/07

[#174744] Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>

After my first day back at my University, I was quickly reminded that

101 messages 2006/01/08
[#174749] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@...> 2006/01/08

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:28:17AM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote:

[#174752] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...> 2006/01/08

On 1/7/06, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+ruby@anthropohedron.net> wrote:

[#174755] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — gwtmp01@... 2006/01/08

[#174756] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...> 2006/01/08

On 1/8/06, gwtmp01@mac.com <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:

[#174800] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/01/08

On Jan 8, 2006, at 12:14 AM, Gregory Brown wrote:

[#174839] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Steve Litt <slitt@...> 2006/01/08

On Sunday 08 January 2006 12:32 pm, James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#174847] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...> 2006/01/08

On 1/8/06, Steve Litt <slitt@earthlink.net> wrote:

[#174856] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Steve Litt <slitt@...> 2006/01/08

On Sunday 08 January 2006 05:04 pm, Gregory Brown wrote:

[#174867] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — gwtmp01@... 2006/01/08

[#174875] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — James Britt <james_b@...> 2006/01/09

gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:

[#174894] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...> 2006/01/09

On 1/8/06, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:

[#174895] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — dblack@... 2006/01/09

Hi --

[#174905] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...> 2006/01/09

On 1/8/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

[#174963] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — dblack@... 2006/01/09

Hi --

[#175030] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...> 2006/01/09

On 1/9/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

[#175036] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — gwtmp01@... 2006/01/09

[#175050] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...> 2006/01/09

On 1/9/06, gwtmp01@mac.com <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:

[#175055] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — James Britt <james_b@...> 2006/01/09

Gregory Brown wrote:

[#174758] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...> 2006/01/08

On 1/8/06, gwtmp01@mac.com <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:

[#174761] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — gwtmp01@... 2006/01/08

[#174766] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...> 2006/01/08

On 1/8/06, gwtmp01@mac.com <gwtmp01@mac.com> wrote:

[#174794] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — gwtmp01@... 2006/01/08

[#174806] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/01/08

On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:00 AM, gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:

[#174822] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...> 2006/01/08

On 1/8/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

[#174826] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/01/08

On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:

[#174827] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...> 2006/01/08

On 1/8/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

[#174828] Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby? — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/01/08

On Jan 8, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Gregory Brown wrote:

[#174768] Is Ruby RAILS really suitable for modern Web Development ? — "Jules" <Roseanna80@...>

I have been reading through RAILS and builing the Depot Application

13 messages 2006/01/08

[#174775] You want a Ruby extension? Talk to me, baby — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>

Hi,

25 messages 2006/01/08

[#174890] global variables are bad?? — John Maclean <info@...>

Chaps,

13 messages 2006/01/09

[#174921] Remove HTML from String? — "jotto" <jonathan.otto@...>

I can't find a method to remove HTML from a string in the core API. PHP

12 messages 2006/01/09

[#175020] Ruby, Unicode - ever? — dseverin <dmitry.severin@...>

Well, as I could search the web so far, since about 2001 or even early,

21 messages 2006/01/09
[#175025] Re: Ruby, Unicode - ever? — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2006/01/09

On 09/01/06, dseverin <dmitry.severin@gmail.com> wrote:

[#175275] Re: Ruby, Unicode - ever? — David Vallner <david@...> 2006/01/11

Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#175138] problem with running foxruby on windows 2000 — Mohsen Akhavan <cplus_developer@...>

Hello How are you ,I installed ruby 1.8.2 with fxruby 1.2.6 for

9 messages 2006/01/10

[#175219] Finding CPU% of a linux task — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>

Hi,

9 messages 2006/01/10

[#175277] Finding a sentence (more than one word & punctuation (, . ;)) in a string? — Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>

given this string

12 messages 2006/01/11

[#175321] Parsing Japanese Language and Some Ruby Trivia — Michael Sullivan <unixwzrd@...>

All this talk about Unicode support and HTML parsing got me to

15 messages 2006/01/11
[#175417] Re-post: Parsing Japanese Language and Some Ruby Trivia — Michael Sullivan <unixwzrd@...> 2006/01/12

Hi,

[#175327] how can I give a name to an anonymous class — sayoyo@...

Hi,

15 messages 2006/01/11
[#175331] Re: how can I give a name to an anonymous class — gwtmp01@... 2006/01/11

[#175352] safe array index ? — Christer Nilsson <janchrister.nilsson@...>

Is it possible to catch index out of range ?

14 messages 2006/01/11

[#175408] Looking up properties and speed — Jonathan Leighton <lists@...>

Hi,

14 messages 2006/01/12

[#175429] Availability of Ruby 1.8.4 Windows (One Click Install) — jsp408@...

1.8.2-15 was the last release of Ruby (Windows One Click Install) in

17 messages 2006/01/12
[#175432] Re: Availability of Ruby 1.8.4 Windows (One Click Install) — David Vallner <david@...> 2006/01/12

jsp408@comcast.net wrote:

[#175444] Re: Availability of Ruby 1.8.4 Windows (One Click Install) — James Britt <james_b@...> 2006/01/12

David Vallner wrote:

[#175466] Re: Availability of Ruby 1.8.4 Windows (One Click Install) — Alexandru Popescu <the.mindstorm.mailinglist@...> 2006/01/12

Sorry to come in the middle of this thread, but I am wondering why

[#175458] Dice Roller (#61) — Matthew Moss <matthew.moss.coder@...>

My reason for choosing a dice roller is somewhat selfish: I was interested

13 messages 2006/01/12

[#175470] Newbie question about multiple assignments — Alex <AlexAfrasinei@...>

12 messages 2006/01/12

[#175487] Question about GUI API for Ruby — Jacek Olszak <jacekolszak@...2.pl>

Hi... currently I'm developing a small gui application. I don't know

29 messages 2006/01/12
[#175551] Re: Question about GUI API for Ruby — tsumeruby@... 2006/01/12

On Thursday 12 January 2006 08:37 pm, Jacek Olszak wrote:

[#175587] Re: Question about GUI API for Ruby — "David Vallner" <david@...> 2006/01/12

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:44:33 +0100, <tsumeruby@tsumelabs.com> wrote:

[#175588] Nothern VA RUG to meet — Richard Kilmer <rich@...>

January 25...details can be found here: http://www.novarug.org

25 messages 2006/01/12
[#175589] RUGS — "J. Ryan Sobol" <ryansobol@...> 2006/01/12

It's exhilarating to see all the RUG announcements, like this one.

[#175655] ruby under cygwin & windows paths — Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@...>

Hello,

15 messages 2006/01/13

[#175662] Packing (#62) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

16 messages 2006/01/13

[#175720] Range#member? Oddity — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

I'm not understanding what I am seeing here. Can anyone please

43 messages 2006/01/13
[#175732] Re: Range#member? Oddity — Matthew Desmarais <desmarm@...> 2006/01/13

James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#175745] Re: Range#member? Oddity — "David Vallner" <david@...> 2006/01/13

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:16:14 +0100, Matthew Desmarais <desmarm@gmail.com>

[#175746] Re: Range#member? Oddity — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/01/13

On Jan 13, 2006, at 3:58 PM, David Vallner wrote:

[#175750] Re: Range#member? Oddity — "David Vallner" <david@...> 2006/01/13

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 23:00:37 +0100, James Edward Gray II

[#175781] Re: Range#member? Oddity — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...> 2006/01/14

James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#175783] Re: Range#member? Oddity — Christer Nilsson <janchrister.nilsson@...> 2006/01/14

Hal Fulton wrote:

[#175731] why is this a comile error — bimo remus <bmoremus@...>

I am doing a tutorial from the Thomas~Hansson book and am getting this

20 messages 2006/01/13
[#175733] Re: why is this a comile error — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2006/01/13

On 13/01/06, bimo remus <bmoremus@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#175735] Re: why is this a comile error — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/01/13

On Jan 13, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Austin Ziegler wrote:

[#175755] Re: why is this a comile error — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2006/01/13

On 13/01/06, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:

[#175832] Librend 0.4 — Ilmari Heikkinen <ilmari.heikkinen@...>

Librend 0.4-----------

5 messages 2006/01/14

[#175882] Resetting ruby — List Recv <listrecv@...>

I'm looking for a fast way to "reset" Ruby. That is, to reset the

19 messages 2006/01/16

[#175910] basic question about Fixnum & Integer — Tom Allison <tallison@...>

Hello,

25 messages 2006/01/16
[#175911] Re: basic question about Fixnum & Integer — zdennis <zdennis@...> 2006/01/16

Tom Allison wrote:

[#175913] Re: basic question about Fixnum & Integer — Tom Allison <tallison@...> 2006/01/16

zdennis wrote:

[#175919] Re: basic question about Fixnum & Integer — Jules <julesjacobs@...> 2006/01/16

No, you don't have to require integer, because it is in the core. The

[#175921] Re: basic question about Fixnum & Integer — Tom Allison <tallison@...> 2006/01/16

Jules wrote:

[#175923] Re: basic question about Fixnum & Integer — Daniel Harple <dharple@...> 2006/01/16

[#175950] this month, the next month, and the one after that — Mason Kessinger <masonkessinger@...>

What I want to do is simple.

14 messages 2006/01/16

[#175998] Question about regular expression — Eric Luo <eric.wenbl@...>

I need to hack out an regular expression, which will match "SNPB" without

12 messages 2006/01/17

[#176147] Unable to write to file... (example from "pickaxe book", second edition, p128) — John Maclean <info@...>

Following the example from "pickaxe book", second edition, p128

11 messages 2006/01/19

[#176155] My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice) — John Maclean <info@...>

Chaps,

33 messages 2006/01/19
[#176157] Re: My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice) — Doug Bromley <doug.bromley@...> 2006/01/19

I think what John is saying is that in the other languages he's used

[#176158] Re: My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice) — John Maclean <info@...> 2006/01/19

Thanks Doug. More concise and articulate that I ever could be.

[#176162] Re: My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice) — Kenneth Collins <pine29@...> 2006/01/19

John, pick out the way to do something that seems most natural to you

[#176167] Re: My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice) — Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...> 2006/01/19

On 1/19/06, Kenneth Collins <pine29@myfastmail.com> wrote:

[#176168] Re: My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice) — James Britt <james_b@...> 2006/01/19

Mark Volkmann wrote:

[#176186] Re: My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice) — Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...> 2006/01/19

On 1/19/06, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:

[#176188] Re: My Thought on the "Pickaxe book" (from a Ruby novice) — ara.t.howard@... 2006/01/19

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Mark Volkmann wrote:

[#176196] Ruby Quiz #62 — Andrew Dudzik <adudzik@...>

Hi all--just found my way into this list by way of Ruby Quiz, which looks

14 messages 2006/01/19

[#176229] Mongrel 0.1.0 -- A Fast As Hell Mostly Ruby Web Server — Zed Shaw <zedshaw@...>

Hi,

16 messages 2006/01/20

[#176247] Mongrel 0.1.1 -- A Fast Ruby Web Server (It Works Now, Maybe) — Zed Shaw <zedshaw@...>

Hi All,

41 messages 2006/01/20
[#176430] Re: [ANN] Mongrel 0.1.1 -- A Fast Ruby Web Server (It Works Now, Maybe) — PA <petite.abeille@...> 2006/01/21

[#176461] Re: [ANN] Mongrel 0.1.1 -- A Fast Ruby Web Server (It Works Now, Maybe) — Jim Freeze <jimfreeze@...> 2006/01/22

On Jan 21, 2006, at 3:07 PM, PA wrote:

[#176469] Re: Mongrel 0.1.1 -- A Fast Ruby Web Server (It Works Now, M — Jeff Pritchard <jp@...> 2006/01/22

Noob question here.

[#176480] Re: Mongrel 0.1.1 -- A Fast Ruby Web Server (It Works Now, M — Zed Shaw <zedshaw@...> 2006/01/22

On Jan 22, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Jeff Pritchard wrote:

[#176255] Grid Folding (#63) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

The three rules of Ruby Quiz:

28 messages 2006/01/20

[#176282] error:- "regex literal in condition" — John Maclean <info@...>

Hi Guys,

32 messages 2006/01/20
[#176288] Hungarian Case variable names. — Zach <zacharooni@...> 2006/01/20

This is an ignorant question to pose, but here I go anyway.

[#176297] Basic Inheritance questions {noob alert:- pickaxe ed. 2, page 27} — John Maclean <info@...>

Chaps,

12 messages 2006/01/20
[#176298] Re: Basic Inheritance questions {noob alert:- pickaxe ed. 2, page 27} — Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...> 2006/01/20

You can do it one of three ways:

[#176329] Re: Basic Inheritance questions {noob alert:- pickaxe ed. 2, page 27} — John Maclean <info@...> 2006/01/20

Thanks for that speedy reply. I've decided to require the within the

[#176330] PostgreSQL in Ruby with SSL connections — Kevin Brown <blargity@...>

Is SSL supported with the ruby postgres adapter? I'd like to SSL the

13 messages 2006/01/20
[#176383] Re: PostgreSQL in Ruby with SSL connections — Dick Davies <rasputnik@...> 2006/01/21

It's handled transparently by libpq. If you're using the C library,

[#176879] Re: PostgreSQL in Ruby with SSL connections — Kevin Brown <blargity@...> 2006/01/25

I'd like to use SSL certificate authentication, and that happens

[#176456] #63: Grid Folding — Luke Blanshard <luke@...>

Greetings all,

16 messages 2006/01/22

[#176457] Minimizing memory allocations — Ilmari Heikkinen <ilmari.heikkinen@...>

So there I was this morning, staring at an ObjectSpace counter tellingme that I'm allocating 1500 Arrays and 10000 Floats per frame. Whichpretty much ground my framerate to ground by requiring a 0.2s GC runevery other frame. So I decided to get down and rid my code of as manyallocations as possible.

23 messages 2006/01/22
[#176512] Re: Minimizing memory allocations — John Carter <john.carter@...> 2006/01/23

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Ilmari Heikkinen wrote:

[#177139] Re: Memoization? — Dave Howell <groups@...> 2006/01/26

[#176479] remove non-ASCII characters in a string — Levin Alexander <levin@...>

Hi,

14 messages 2006/01/22

[#176525] Line breaking in Ruby can be dangerous — Sky Yin <sky.yin@...>

After programing in ruby for the past 3 months, I must say I'm

11 messages 2006/01/23

[#176543] WeakRef Hash — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

I need a Hash-like structure, using WeakRef, so that the key value

14 messages 2006/01/23

[#176622] About rant on Dave Thomas site, titled 'imitation...' — "simonh" <simonharrison@...>

Couldn't post a reply on Daves site so thought i'd post one here. Here

38 messages 2006/01/24
[#177011] Re: About rant on Dave Thomas site, titled 'imitation...' — "Francis Hwang" <sera@...> 2006/01/25

SteveC wrote:

[#177218] Re: About rant on Dave Thomas site, titled 'imitation...' — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2006/01/27

[#177219] Re: About rant on Dave Thomas site, titled 'imitation...' — Alex Combas <alex.combas@...> 2006/01/27

On 1/26/06, Dave Thomas <Dave@pragprog.com> wrote:

[#177269] Re: About rant on Dave Thomas site, titled 'imitation...' — Dave Thomas <Dave@...> 2006/01/28

[#177272] Re: About rant on Dave Thomas site, titled 'imitation...' — Alex Combas <alex.combas@...> 2006/01/28

On 1/27/06, Dave Thomas <Dave@pragprog.com> wrote:

[#177387] Re: About rant on Dave Thomas site, titled 'imitation...' — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2006/01/30

On Jan 28, 2006, at 1:05 AM, Alex Combas wrote:

[#177389] Re: About rant on Dave Thomas site, titled 'imitation...' — Alex Combas <alex.combas@...> 2006/01/30

On 1/29/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:

[#176722] LazyLoad — "Erik Veenstra" <google@...>

Imagine, you're building a CVS like repository. A repository

22 messages 2006/01/24

[#176883] postgres database — Tom Allison <tallison@...>

What is the file I need to require for connection to a postgres

14 messages 2006/01/25

[#176899] I like the new ruby-doc.org! — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

Hadn't seen this mentioned here, so just wanted to say that I feel

30 messages 2006/01/25

[#176923] Gems zlib problem — Ryan Tate <ryantate@...>

I am going to echo posts scattered throughout the Internet here and say

16 messages 2006/01/25
[#176928] Re: Gems zlib problem — mlbright@... 2006/01/25

This is what worked for me.

[#177189] Re: Gems zlib problem — Ryan Tate <ryantate@...> 2006/01/27

Thanks, I'll give this a shot. I did install all three of those (zlibc,

[#177306] nil != [] — Alex Polite <notmyprivateemail@...>

OK. Here's my second stupid question for today.

13 messages 2006/01/28

[#177318] Loop weirdness — Jonathan Leighton <lists@...>

Hi,

16 messages 2006/01/28

[#177327] OpenGL-0.32g for Apple MacOS X — James Adam <james.adam@...>

In case anyone needs this, I've uploaded my tweaked version of the

9 messages 2006/01/29

[#177383] relative dates — charlie bowman <cbowmanschool@...>

today = Time.now

14 messages 2006/01/30

[#177404] Ruby tutorials w/ excercises — Scott Taylor <scott@...>

13 messages 2006/01/30

[#177415] One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview1 is available! — Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@...>

One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview1 is available!

18 messages 2006/01/30
[#177419] Re: One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview1 is available! — Dirk Meijer <hawkman.gelooft@...> 2006/01/30

whoa!

[#177424] Strange posting about ebooks — Peter Hickman <peter@...>

For some unfathomable reason I have received four emails containing

58 messages 2006/01/30
[#177447] Re: Strange posting about ebooks — dblack@... 2006/01/30

Hi --

[#177452] Re: Strange posting about ebooks — Dirk Meijer <hawkman.gelooft@...> 2006/01/30

i got them as well...

[#177453] Re: Strange posting about ebooks — dblack@... 2006/01/30

Hi --

[#177455] Re: Strange posting about ebooks — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2006/01/30

On Jan 30, 2006, at 8:21 AM, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

[#177498] Re: Strange posting about ebooks — tsumeruby@... 2006/01/30

On Monday 30 January 2006 11:28 pm, James Edward Gray II wrote:

[#177502] Re: Strange posting about ebooks — Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...> 2006/01/30

On 1/30/06, tsumeruby@tsumelabs.com <tsumeruby@tsumelabs.com> wrote:

[#177469] check for and if not there, create direcory and file — charlie bowman <cbowmanschool@...>

18 messages 2006/01/30

[#177491] Is this a floating point precision problem? — "Todd S." <tgate@...>

I'm using the Matrix module (matrix.rb) to help place a vertex into

11 messages 2006/01/30

[#177517] One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available! — Curt Hibbs <curt.hibbs@...>

=== One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available! ===

24 messages 2006/01/30
[#177532] Re: One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available! — Tom Copeland <tom@...> 2006/01/31

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 08:32 +0900, Curt Hibbs wrote:

[#177567] Re: One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available! — Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...> 2006/01/31

On 1/30/06, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:

[#177596] Re: One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available! — Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...> 2006/01/31

Curt Hibbs wrote:

[#177612] Re: One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available! — Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...> 2006/01/31

On 1/31/06, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:

[#177642] Re: One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available! — Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...> 2006/02/01

[#177643] Re: One-Click Ruby Installer 184-16 preview2 is available! — Curt Hibbs <ml.chibbs@...> 2006/02/01

Maybe the RUBYOPT environent variable isn't getting set. Try manually

[#177539] Mongrel HTTP Library 0.2.0 (Fast And RubyForgified) — Zed Shaw <zedshaw@...>

Hi Everyone,

10 messages 2006/01/31

[#177619] Numeric#of — ara.t.howard@...

28 messages 2006/01/31
[#177621] Re: [RCR] Numeric#of — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2006/01/31

Hi,

Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby?

From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-01-08 05:53:42 UTC
List: ruby-talk #174754
Gregory Brown wrote:
> After my first day back at my University, I was quickly reminded that
> not everyone in the world embraces the "You'll shoot your eye out"
> nature of Ruby as much as we all do.  I just started a course on
> object oriented design in C++ and naturally the issues of security
> came up as soon as the fact that I had been working in Ruby had been
> mentioned.
> 
> Rather than spending an hour arguing for why Ruby's openness makes
> *my* life easier, I decided that i'd do a little research and digging
> around and then form an O'Reilly blog article on the topic.  As part
> of that research, I'm asking the RubyTalk community for some well
> founded opinions that make the case for dynamicity and openness,
> particularly the meta-programming tricks many of us have become
> acquainted with.

Here's a common case for me.  I often have some code that needs to 
escape or transform a string for some purpose. Rather than write

  stuff << NameSpacedUtilClass.some_modifier( my_string )

I prefer

  stuff << my_string.some_modifier

because I prefer Tell, Don't Ask.  It tends to make for crisper, clearer 
code.  And I can do that because I can add custom behavior to Strings.

I believe that is simpler and more correct than subclassing String to 
get my custom String-like class with custom behavior.

I've also grown found of being able to find and slurp in code files and 
instantiate classes based on some string.  My blogging software allows 
one to specify an output format as part of the URL. The code knows how 
to break up the path_info string and recognize when, say, there is a 
request for rss or xfml or OOo or whatever,  It knows that there is a 
file named rss.rb or xfml.rb or whatever.rb, with a class named (ready 
now?) Rss or Xfml or Whatever.  And so on.  So I can easily add new 
output formats by dropping rendering coding into a running app.

Now, I acquired this taste coding while Java in the late '90s, so this 
is not a Ruby thing per se, but I find it easier and more natural in 
Ruby.  The idea of convention over configuration is quite old (well, as 
software ideas go), but dynamic languages strike me as more friendly in 
this regard.  Far fewer hoops.  I don't get tied down in interfaces and 
'extends' or 'implements' or any of that crap.  Code just needs to be 
where it is expected and Do The Right Thing when asked.

The URL as [command line|method(arguments)|encoded message] is also not 
special to Ruby apps, with a history in PHP/Java/Perl, but again somehow 
Ruby makes it easier for me.  The line between plain text and program 
command is flexible.  I like that.

The availability of method_missing allows one to completely decouple the 
exposed API (the messages understood by an object) from the 
implementation (the methods inside an object), allowing for more robust, 
less brittle code.

Plus the ability to do sketch-driven development, 
code/run/tweak/test/code while adjusting designs and goals suits my 
temperament.

It seems to help me evolve DSLs, and follow the adage, "Build a 
language, not an application."

> 
> I'd also like to hear places that people would NOT use ruby due to
> it's open nature, and the reasons for that.  I'd like this article to
> be more a technical piece on why a little bit of life on the wild side
> can be a wise decision, and also why it can be less of a dangerous
> endeavor than some might believe when done correctly.  I'd like to
> avoid zealotry and flamage and my meta-programming-fu can kick your
> static ass type things, and instead focus on the nuts and bolts of the
> issue.

Good question.    I don't have a real answer.  Perhaps for medical 
equipment software or something where risk factors are so high that 
every and all means to ensure program correctness are required.  That 
means static typing, unit and functional tests,  whatever you can get 
your hands on.

Maybe.


James

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